Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Chief ofPolce of Denver.
Gunnison is to be made dining sta
ton on the d. Il r. G. railroad.
From fifty to seventy-fve people are
ascending Pixies Peak every day.
The big Montezuma tunnel still
lacks 600 feet of being completed.
Frank Webb, of Montrose, has
raised four acres of hops this year.
The Denver and Trinidad road is
open and trains are running regularly.
Water has been struck in the artesian
we'll at Montrose at depth of 700 feet.
Mayor Lee, of Denver, has demanded
and received the resignation of his Chief of
Police.
Natural gas has been found on the
farm of Mr.. Thompson, eight miles from
Pueblo.
A district fair and settlers reunion
will be held at Akron August 31st and Sep
| TENDER l.
The brakemen on the third and fourth
divisions of the Denver & Rio Grande road
are on strike.
The Methodists are going to hold a
big camp meeting at Salida commencing on
| the Goth of August
The railroads have granted greatly
reduced rates for shipments intended for
the Denver exposition.
Two laborers were killed by an ex-
plosion on the Midland grade near Hager-
| man tunnel on the Goth.
The county commissioners of Gar
field county are considering project to
erect 5000 court house.
From twenty twenty-five car loads
| of stone are being received daily at Denver
| for the new Capitol building.
Mrs. Churchill, editor of the Queen
| Bee, was severely injured by being tipped
| over in stage coach last week.
The Governor has committed the
sentence of Sjoquist, the condemned
Georgetown murderer, to Imprisonment for
life.
The abandoned Pixies Peak tele-
graph line has been sold to Mr.. r. Pals
grove for $40. 1t cost the Government up
wards of 81 900.
The Midland people claim that their
track will be laid to the mouth of the Fry
ing Pan, in the Roaring Fork Valley, by
the 10th of September.
Plans and specifications are out for
building to be used as an invalids' home,
and N he in nharDa nf tho GiefarS nP
Francis, at Colorado Springs.
A gold nugget. said to be the largest
ever found in Colorado was discovered near
Breckenridge Saturday. 1t weighed thir-
teen pounds and five pennyweights.
The Leadville Gas company has made
arrangements with the Florence Oil COM
pany for all the crude petroleum not
used at the refinery. 1t will be used tcmake
gas.
The business men of Leadville are
getting inpatient at the prolonged closing
| of the Tabor Grand Hotel, and propose if
it is not speedily thrown open to the public
to construct new one.
In rock-drilling contest near Lead
vile the other day Pat Harrington and
Dennis Sullivan drove the iron % inches in
So minutes, 3sl seconds, striking 1913
blows. The rock was solid quartz.
The site for the Jesuit University has
| been definitely decided upon. 1t will be
| on the Berkeley farm, short distance
northwest from Denver. Work on the
main building will be begun at once.
Some one entered several of the cor
rails in Denver few nights ago and cut
the threats of number of valuable ami
mails. A reward of $500 has been offered
for information leading to the arrest of the
cowardly william.
The Rio Grande officials have prom
ised to extend their road into Ouray pro-
vided the people of that town would grade
the road bed from their place to the pro-
posed town of Chipeta. This they have
agreed to do.
A Pueblo tough tried to hold up W.
II .Hyde,a well-known implement dealer of
that town, but discovered too late that he had
tackled the wrong man. He had his gun
taken away from him and in the scuf1le re-
ceiyed a bullet in his abdomen from which
he will die.
The authorities of Manitou have in
structed City Clerk McCreery, of Colorado
Springs, to order $500 feet Of eight-inch
pipe, 1900 feet of six-inch pipe and 5000
feet of three-inch pipe, which will be used
in the construction of the new wa,er-works
system at Manitou.
The certificate RI incorporation for
the West Branch Ditch and Reservoir Com
pany, of Montrose, with John H. WILDER,
Joseph d. Rollins, Christian Messer, Al
fred Keller, Stephen Tappan and Webster
Fl. Knight as incorporators, and a capital
stock of $4,000, has been filed with the
Secretary of State.
Adjutant General West has received
and accepted designations from the follow
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